Alert archive / Kansas / Dense Fog Advisories in 2011
Dense Fog Advisory 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this dense fog advisory at Feb 27, 2011, 9:10 AM CST for 8 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 110 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2011, 9:10 AM CST (15:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2011, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 110 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dense fog advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this dense fog advisory went out at Feb 27, 3:10 AM CST, 6 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 3:10 AM CST, 6 hours before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 27, 3:29 AM CST, 5 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 329 AM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-281000- TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 329 AM CST SUN FEB 27 2011 /229 AM MST SUN FEB 27 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT EAST OF LINE FROM WAKEENEY TO COLDWATER, UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING. EXPECT LOW VISIBILITIES FROM 1/4 TO 1/2-MILE, AND POOR DRIVING CONDITIONS. THERE IS A WIND ADVISORY POSTED FROM NOON TO 6 PM CST TODAY, SOUTH OF A LINE FROM JOHNSON CITY TO MEADE. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. WINDS THIS STRONG WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. FURTHERMORE, A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS, FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CST TODAY. CONDITIONS FOR WILD FIRES WILL BE CRITICAL AND OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. LASTLY, THERE IS CHANCE FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 PM TO 10 PM CST, EAST OF A LINE FROM HAYS TO MEDICINE LODGE. SOME SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS, BUT SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 47 min |
Nearby
Dense Fog Advisories in Kansas, 2011Every dense fog advisory in 2011
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.